If I just spent the last month fighting off a robber who was trying to break into my house every night and then the robber one day comes to my front door, arms raised, and says "Whoa! Whoah! Calm down. I'm sorry about the last month, man. I'm not here to rob you. I promise. I just need a glass of water. Mind if I come in?"

Wouldn't it be foolish of me to say "yeah, c'mon in"?

Microsoft has shown their hand. Not only did it take them a full month to finally back down from this, but they spent years developing it in the first place. I have no respect for so-called "gamers" who instantly forget the last month of Microsoft PR simply because Microsoft removed SOME of its bad policies. Then again, I do live in America, The Land of No Self-Control(tm).

And they still haven't reversed some of their policies. TvTvSportsTv is still a major focus of the system. Kinect is still required. Price is still $500. Hardware is still less powerful (due to bloated OSs). And seeing how they'll need to scurry for the next 5 months to completely re-do the firmware, I wouldn't be surprised if we have some rocky software issues for the first several months.

Lol at the title. The fact that they tried to get us to buy this "used to be" anti consumer box in the first place is bad. Just remember that, they tried to take advantage of everyone's consumer rights.

@KingElixir I have no idea how you have been reported for trolling for what you are saying is spot on, Microsoft tried something to see if the competition would follow and it failed, now they are back pedaling because they had another attempt at screwing us gamers and we where having none of it. Now they are saying they " LISTENED " to us and have changed their plan. So that basically means they shat themselves when they realized gamers were outraged at what they had tried to impose and have went in the same direction as Sony. Should of done that from Day one and it would of protected their image.

Has it made it more appealing? Well, definitely has but there are still a few issues. I'm happy consumers stood up and got it their way, at least partially. I might buy one in the future when the price goes down.

Keep complaining, I will state the negatives even for my favorite system. If we act like nothing is wrong, nothing will change.

Still not rushing at Next Gen until after release.....but, it has certainly spiked my interest in XB1....

I will get both eventually but might get the XB1 first as the games coming in the first year look better currently IMO....The most exciting thing personally about XB1 is the promise of dedicated servers and a generally better online gaming experience....

Sony has got some big games that will be announced in the next year though...Uncharted 4, God of War, Last of us 2 etc.....

This is good for gamers though maybe not so much for devs or publisher but can MS control the damage when it's done so much already. MS screwed up huge with the DRM, PR and their marketing. This shouldn't have happened in the first place. Props for them on fixing it but to me it just comes off as a means to sell more consoles instead doing what is right.